Pirate Kingship

Wow

The elegant bow of the ship hung with the [Ship Portrait: South Wind Girl], slowly pushing away the dark sea that was a little too calm under the heavy fog.

The ship's hull, which was made of pure gold, brought a vivid color to this quiet place, as if even this dark and wild sea became brighter.

The white sculpture standing in the center of the golden light is a slender and graceful half-naked girl dancing in the wind, wearing only a thin layer of gauze.

It is obviously a hard sculpture, but the shape of the wind and the vitality of the rhythm are perfectly outlined through the girl's body movements and the layer of tulle.

With just a casual glance, you can immediately notice that there is a warm spring breeze blowing around her.

And that's exactly what happened.

In the windless zone spanning five degrees north and south of the equator, there is obviously no transverse wind parallel to the sea surface, only updrafts, but the sails of the [Golden Deer] are still almost full.

It is precisely thanks to the magical effect of this ship’s head statue:

"Wind direction conductor. Distorts and changes the wind direction within a certain range, so that the sea breeze blowing through the warship tends to the side and rear winds that are most conducive to navigation.

By changing the angle to plus or minus thirty degrees, you can easily take advantage of even just updrafts. "

In addition, there is a [large-scale sea monster·ammonite] small snail that can be pulled using animal power, adding double insurance to the Golden Deer to pass through the windless zone.

Byron raised his head and glanced at the sky:

"It's just now five o'clock in the evening, and the sky is completely dark in the windless zone that should be directly exposed to the sun."

Then he gave the order to the crew:

"Light the navigation lights and the first mate repeats the taboos for night navigation."

On the main mast of the Golden Deer, a whale oil lamp mixed with inferior spice powder was hung high.

The bright blue light signals to other ships at sea and to nearby lighthouses that there is a ship here.

This is a common practice for sailing ships sailing on fixed routes.

Unless you're the only one venturing out into the ocean, it's best to prove to others that you're human.

While avoiding collisions, misjudgments are also avoided.

[Iron Wall] Bruch stood on the back deck, his voice clearly reaching everyone’s ears:

“Don’t be too verbose, everyone is repeating the taboos on overseas night sailing again:

First, do not call each other directly by name, only nicknames or code names are allowed;

Second, if you hear any unusual noises at sea, do not investigate privately. Report to me or the captain immediately. We will take turns on duty at night;

Third, once you are separated during night work and you meet other crew members later, you must immediately verify the password and the other person’s position to make sure that the other person is still the same person you know and not something else;

Fourth, the danger of the celestial circulation zone is similar to that of the first circulation zone. Do not stare at the sea surface for more than twenty minutes at a time;

If you don't have enough ranks and a strong enough [anchor], you will have the urge to return to the sea and become a fish. The longer the time, the stronger the urge.

All crew members on board are now on duty in two shifts, with one team staying and the second team taking a break immediately.

As for the [Ten Commandments of Pirates] of the Vanguard Colonial Trading Company, I won’t repeat them all.

In non-wartime conditions, the lights are turned off at eight o'clock in the evening. Violators will receive ten cat-nine-tails tied with projectiles, and the punishment will be doubled if no lampshade is applied. "

"Yes, first mate!"

The sailors on the ship were all the best sailors in the entire privateer fleet and the Lancastrian remnants. They acted quickly after listening to orders, as if they were one body.

You know, any extraordinary person on an ordinary merchant ship is already qualified to be a captain, and the proportion of extraordinary people among them is already more than half.

The literacy rate has reached an astonishing 100%.

Byron had been preparing for this operation for a long time. He had already armed the Golden Deer from the inside to the outside, from personnel to equipment.

The farther away you are from the [Silver Law] and the Old Continent, the more volatile the weather will be under the influence of the source material tide.

The celestial circulation zone is obviously located at the equator, the brightest place in the world, but from time to time the interior is filled with extremely low visibility fog, or even mirages.

This holy relic warship moved forward silently in the darkness alone.

Depression, loneliness, unknown, all kinds of negative emotions hit together, and every sailor is undergoing a huge psychological test at all times.

Especially at night, all kinds of evil spirits, grotesques, monsters, and other messy things will appear.

With only a pair of naked eyes with limited vision and weak lights, it is impossible to guard against the ubiquitous dangers.

"Delia, open [Lighthouse Sentinel]."

Byron held the steering wheel tightly and gave instructions to his navigator.

"Yes, Captain."

Delia quickly adapted to her position, agreed quickly, and hung the rare whale oil lantern in her hand on the bracket next to the steering wheel.

He stretched out a slender finger, his fingertips bursting with light, and tapped lightly on the glass shade of the lantern.

The slightly bluish lamp flame exploded into a flower, and then a face belonging to Delia appeared inside.

This is a unique extraordinary ability of a navigator [Lighthouse Sentinel].

Byron's spirituality extended upward, and he suddenly felt strange fluctuations spreading from the lamp flame and then refracting back, and the darkness in front of him also changed into another appearance.

You can even see if there are any reefs under the dark water.

I couldn't help but praise her:

"Well done, Miss Delia. Navigators are really good helpers for captains."

The compass can work all day long, but the navigator cannot.

Under normal navigation, a simulated sentinel with multiple abilities can be used to replace one's position.

[Navigator] This profession has more auxiliary supernatural abilities at the expense of low combat effectiveness. Even if it is only low sequence, it can be regarded as the best auxiliary.

The sentinel can indicate obstacles, crisis warnings, and detect underwater reefs. It can even connect to nearby lighthouses at any time to provide auxiliary positioning and course correction services for the helmsman.

When it reaches the middle sequence, even automatic driving is no problem.

Byron knew that there was black magic that could extract the souls of navigators or sailors and make them into artificial cursed objects to assist navigation.

Delia smiled:

"Thank you for your praise, Captain.

After the successive verification of the May Wind and the Ocean Throne, this route that can indeed lead to the New World will soon be completely fixed.

Not only will the Seagull Messenger 9526 come to establish a postal network, but the lighthouses along the route will also be built one after another under the auspices of the Federation.

The direct person in charge is my father.

When the time comes, the law network will descend on the Calm Belt to suppress all kinds of evil spirits and weirdness, and this entire route will be much safer.

Those merchant ships and whaling ships can travel safely as long as they abide by the taboos, even if they do not have the military force of the Golden Deer."

After finishing her work today, Delia immediately went with Jacqueline, who had been impatient for a long time.

"My father and mother are very strict at home. After I started working at the Federation, I could only wear the uniform robes every day. I had no freedom at all.

If it weren't for the good reputation of Mr. Congressman, my father would not agree to let me go on board.

I can only wear the clothes I like after going out.

Jacqueline, you are such a good person.

Oh, wait a minute, the pendulum shows this side, ha, this is indeed my room. I didn't get lost this time, I'm really amazing.

I'll bring my spare clothes with me, why don't we sleep together at night.

Just being able to provide unlimited light In terms of water, the Golden Deer has left 90% of the sailboats behind. It's so beautiful. "

"Great!

Delia, let me tell you, spider silk can keep you warm in winter and protect you from the sun in summer when worn on your legs, and it is also very strong.

It feels smoother than silk, and the feel is simply amazing. Touch my thigh and try it out. I'm not kidding you, am I?

Let me touch it later, too."

"No problem, we are all girls anyway."

Although Byron said that he didn't understand what they meant by slippery, he had to admit one thing.

Although Jacqueline herself was a girl, her skills in picking up girls were perfect.

With just a few words, he easily caught the weakness of a young lady and catered to her preferences. They had just progressed to the point of sleeping in the same bed on the first day of their acquaintance.

Awesome!

He glanced at Violet, who had been accompanying him to sail the boat.

"I should learn from her about being persistent and proactive.

Even with my past life, I am only a theoretical veteran.

Although I have learned a lot of 'knowledge' from so many 'teachers', those learning materials all omit the step of falling in love.

I don't know how to do it at all."

At this time, the logbook in his right eye suddenly updated automatically:

"Milestone completed: setting foot in the southern hemisphere."

It was the [Golden Deer] that sped along, and from time to time in the safe waters ahead, the "local snake" Xiao Wo opened the vortex transmission, and it reached the equator in just one day.

But here, it was already a water area that even Xiao Wo was not familiar with, and he didn't dare to transmit casually.

In addition, Byron took out a crystal skull that suddenly dimmed from his pocket.

That was the No. 12 [North Star God].

Relying on the command ability of the No. 1 crystal skull on his neck, Byron could exert the power of the thirteen crystal skulls to the limit without chanting.

The ability of this skull is [Real-time Map].

In a large range: it can observe the stars, accurately locate the position of the holder, and never get lost (only for use in the northern hemisphere, the North Star does not cover the southern hemisphere).

They just crossed the equator and entered the southern hemisphere, and this ability instantly failed.

From then on, the only human radar they can rely on is the [Navigator].

In a small range: it can communicate with the spirit of the earth, and make an accurate real-time map of the terrain and personnel distribution within a radius of several kilometers and transmit it to the holder's consciousness.

The closer to the Taino's hometown, the larger the detection range and the more detailed the information. The farther away from Yucatan Island, the smaller the detection range and the more sparse the information.

In completely unfamiliar areas, the map range may be reduced to only a few hundred meters.

Once in the southern hemisphere, the skull's ability to be used is only half, but it is powerful enough for many adventures.

The next moment, both the [Lighthouse Sentinel] and the [North Star God] warned him:

"Be careful of the reefs, avoid them."

Soon, as the waves surged ahead, Byron could clearly see the white foam connected in a strip on the sea surface in the distance.

This situation means that there are either shallows or reefs there. If you accidentally hit them, you will run aground at best, or sink in the worst case.

Byron became more cautious when driving the boat.

After a while, the ocean landscape suddenly changed, and dark islands appeared at the limit of the field of vision.

Some of them were glittering, some were lifeless, and some were as lively as fairyland, but Byron avoided them from a distance.

He had no interest in getting close to appreciate them.

Violet, who had been with Byron, saw them and remembered the information she had read in the "Key of Omniscience" in the public library. She couldn't help blinking her eyes and asked curiously:

"Byron, do you think these islands were really part of the New World?

It's hard to imagine what level of power can tear half of the continent apart."

The [Naturalists] who came here earlier have spent a lot of time repeatedly exploring and published a large number of academic papers to prove it.

There is a broken continental shelf under the water in this sea area, and it is very likely that this place was once part of a vast land.

According to the extraordinary people of the tower sequence.

It may be that one day in the distant past, because of the sudden appearance of a zero-level world crack, the powerful source burst caused part of the continental shelf here to disintegrate.

Not only did it create a huge group of broken islands, it also pushed the remaining entire continental plate to the south.

It was precisely because of this discovery, coupled with the direction of the ocean currents, that the first group of explorers who came to the celestial circulation zone asserted that there must be a huge land in the south!

In addition, most of these islands, called the "Broken Islands", have derived many strange secrets rooted in human history and mythology because of that incident.

Each island has specific rules and unknown dangers.

There may be treasures, but the greater possibility is the grotesqueness that devours human lives.

If placed in the Bantaan Islands, each one is a restricted area.

"Maybe, as long as you see the new world with your own eyes, these questions may be answered.

But there is no need to explore these islands when you harvest the unknown."

The farther away from the old world, the farther the ecological system is from the real world and the closer it is to mythological stories.

The creatures active here are infinitely close to the legendary mythological era.

Creatures that were extinct in the Old World long before the Silver Age also appeared from time to time:

"The Harpies like to kidnap strong sailors in groups to find breeding partners for themselves and continue their species;

"The Mouth of the Abyss" can create a whirlpool in the sea water and swallow everything as long as it opens its mouth;

"Whale Island" is as big as an island and will drag the ship and the people into the water when the ship docks;

"The beauty that can confuse the crew with beautiful singing and eat their flesh and blood"

Byron just thought of this through Violet's topic.

"Ah~Ah~Ah~"

A faint singing voice suddenly came into his ears.

It was like the beautiful sound of a dolphin. There were no specific lyrics but it seemed to be able to instantly penetrate the soul and reach the heart of the person.

Then, an island that they had just passed by a few minutes ago appeared in front of them again.